Yay, more debt!
Congrats to the USA for raising the debt ceiling. Wait, is that a good thing? No, I’d say it isn’t. I think the fight over reigning in US spending is…
Debt, electricity rates and Muskrat Falls #nlvotes
The editorial board at the Telegram understands the point exactly. It’s a point your humble e-scribbler has been harping on for six years to one extent or another. And it’s…
China massively expands CCTV surveillance – Surveillance camera theater companies around the world "cheer" new audiences
In what will generally be condemned by everyone as a creepy dystopian move, the Chinese government has massively expanded its video surveillance network into supermarkets, schoolrooms, university classrooms, malls –…
Phony Tony!
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Looking through a funhouse mirror: The CRTC releases its Communications Monitoring Report
Image courtesy of Edenpictures on Flickr Written by Stefanie Lee and Carla Cristoffanini The CRTC recently released its annual Communications Monitoring Report, which shows that numbers of broadband Internet and…
Nowak: Canadian broadband through rose-coloured glasses
By Peter Nowak The CRTC released its annual Communications Monitoring Report last week and, as usual, the document shows Canada to have a very healthy – and wealthy – telecom…
What’s Up With Conservative White Men and Climate Change Denial?
Rush_Limbaugh.jpg They come at you at public events, wanting to argue. They light up the switchboards whenever there’s a radio show about climate change. They commandeer your blog comments ...
The Cowboys and the Kids
The Baseline Cowboys were catapulted into the local celebrity spotlight over the past few weeks as bloggers blogged, reporters reported, and photographers photographed them. They’ve been in the Ottawa Citizen…
On incomplete pictures
One might think that an expose into Nycole Turmel's political involvement would go back further than the past five years. But surely Daniel Leblanc wouldn't have cut anything important out…
Putting The Children In Charge
Joe Nocera's column in today's New York Times will be quoted often in years to come. He and a few others -- like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich -- have…
Connection with the Universe Re-established, the 400 Plus Boxes are Opened…
but the stuff hasn't been put away yet. The house is nearly as big a mess as the state of the world.I'll be back with before- and after pix as…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 2, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:BC courts divided on Islamic divorce law - Vancouver Sun -http://goo.gl/BtrRYThe horrible crime of incivility - Globe and Mail -…
Watch: Pink Balls in Montreal’s Gay Village – Summer 2011
This is a fantastic video highlighting landscape architect Claude Cormier's "Les Boules Roses" (The Pink Balls), 170,000 pink resin balls fastened to wires strung out at different levels and through…
Conspiracy Theorists Rally to Oslo
Not surprising, when you think about it. First there are obvious anomalies, such as the police taking such a long time to get to the island where the massacre took…
Know what we celebrate on Aug. 1? You should
Monday, August 1, is a holiday in Canada. Everyone knows that. But what is the name of the holiday?This name is deeply rooted in the Canadian past. It commemorates one…
Watch: Jamaica launches anti-homophobia PSA campaign
In arguably the most homophobic place on earth, Jamaica, a new anti-homophobia video public service announcement (PSA) campaign debuted Monday on television and the Internet. The campaign, "Unconditional Love," features…
Only more immigrants can save Canada’s economy
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/news/blog.html?b=fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/08/01/steve-lafleur-only-more-immigrants-can-save-canadas-economyThe adventures of a Franco Ontarian Viz Min Woman in Ottawa.
Tax value
This piece in the Globe today by a Toronto architect, Jack Diamond is worth a read because it's the kind of case that's not often made these days for what's…
The so-called “bipartisan” agreement in the U.S…
… is only putting off the inevitable unless something more substantive can be done to alleviate the unfathomable levels of American debt. Americans are going to have to pay now…
Charles Monnett And The Polar Bears
Back in 2006, US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Enforcement and Regulation biologist Charles Monnett published a brief paper in which he described, apparently for the first time, a number…